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Thanks to “Grease: Live” and NBC’s recent musicals, live broadcast-television productions are back in vogue ... and Fox is taking a big swing with the latest.

Obviously timed for a week before Easter by airing Sunday, March 20, “The Passion” transposes the final hours of Jesus Christ’s life onto the present day, using settings throughout New Orleans. A contemporary score arranged by “Glee” and “Rock of Ages” veteran Adam Anders also is a major element of the program, calling for a largely music-inclined cast, though Tyler Perry serves as host and narrator. (The special will be shown on tape-delay in the Western half of the country.)

Jencarlos Canela of NBC’s “Telenovela” portrays Jesus, with “American Idol” alum Chris Daughtry as Judas, Prince Royce as Peter, country star Trisha Yearwood as Mary, and Seal as Pontius Pilate. Grammy-winning gospel staples Yolanda Adams and Michael W. Smith also perform in the presentation written by “High School Musical’s” Peter Barsocchini, but there will be many other participants as well: One thousand people are slated to be involved in carrying an illuminated cross from the Superdome to a stage on the banks of the Mississippi River.

“I think it was around 2007 that I learned that only 25 percent of the Dutch population was still aware of what the story of Easter was about,” says executive producer Jacco Doornbos, who has staged multiple versions of “The Passion” overseas. “That really shocked me, because I felt like whether it’s from a religious standpoint, an historical standpoint or a cultural standpoint, we need to know this story because it’s part of our culture in Holland, as it is part of our culture here in the U.S., and that’s where I felt I wanted to come up with something that brings that story back into the public space.”

Famous for maintaining creative control over most of his projects, Perry is happy to be a hired hand in this case. “I got really, really excited when I found out that this was happening,” he recalls, “because I had seen some clips of the Netherlands show, and I thought it was just

amazing. And when I heard that it was going to be in New Orleans, which is my hometown – a place that has endured great suffering, but also knows about triumph and overcoming – I thought there was no better place than there to tell this particular story, using the landmarks that I grew up with and (being) around the people that I know so well.

“And also, being Christian, I love this story,” adds Perry. “I love the idea of it being told very modern, very updated ... so that not only people who know about it and who are believers (can be interested), but people who are not, (and) are from all walks of life, can look at this story, get it, understand it, appreciate it, and have love for it, just as I do. Just as it is.”

To that end, fellow executive producer Mark Bracco (“Rising Star”) considers the music choices in “The Passion” essential. He reasons, “I think we are trying to tell the story in a way that is as inclusive for everyone to watch together whether you are a believer in the story or someone who wants to hear Trisha Yearwood sing a Whitney Houston song and say, ‘Wow, I’ve got to tune in for that because that’s going to be pretty cool.’”

“We are doing it in a way that is young and modern, and doing it in a way that is inclusive for everyone to watch together as a family, (to) tell this story that has the themes of every story in every movie and TV show ... of love, forgiveness and betrayal. I think that’s our intention.”

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of ‘Dancing With the Stars’ Monday on aBC

With Season 22 of “Dancing With the Stars” starting, do you do any research on the new group of celebrity contestants before the competition begins?Sometimes – just like everybody else at home – I go, “Who’s that?” What I judge, and what I give numbers to, always has to be the dance. That is what we’re there for, and that’s what my area of expertise is. We do get to know the people on the show, though, and that is the heart of it ... learning about them and being inspired by their stories.I do think it’s an important part to comment on, so I like to involve the person and their journey, because I think that’s what engages the audience. I speak with my heart, but the numbers have to be based on technique, and more of a cross-section of all the elements of a performance. But I never ignore the emotional aspect.

This season, Julianne Hough isn’t returning as a judge, but Len Goodman is. Does it make a big difference to you who else is on the panel?In my mind, we are a family. Len didn’t stop being a part of the family when he took a break, and Julianne will never stop being a part of the family just because she’s moving on to do other things. When people come to see the show, they’re really impressed that it does have that family feeling. And not a lot of shows do.I think what’s great about our judging panel is that all of us are very supportive of the pros (the pro dancers). They’re the unsung heroes of our show. Most of our commentary is toward the celebrities, but the pros really are the ones who take them on this journey, and it’s magical.

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Is it true that Johnny Depp was pushing for you to be cast on “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”?Yes, I believe that’s true. Because we both live in London, I get to see Helena (Bonham Carter, his co-star in several movies) a little bit more. But I’m good friends with both of them. They’re both incredibly down-to-earth, lovely people who in different ways took me under their wings when I was young and just sort of starting out.

How was it working with Johnny?The amount of ideas that he brings to the set every day are incredible. He’s always trying out new things and has this incredibly natural side to him, too. Despite doing sort of incredibly bizarre things in so many different roles, there’s always this grounded nature to his work. And I guess I was fortunate to work with him on “Finding Neverland,” which was sort of a perfect example of the subtleties that he can also bring to his work.

Your bio on IMDB says you’re fluent Spanish, French and Arabic. Are you?I guess Spanish and French more so than – I haven’t had much (opportunity) to practice Arabic recently. But I did at Cambridge. My degree was in Arabic and Spanish and I’ve done a few films in France, and so through picking it up on set and then going and spending time in their respective countries ... .

And at one point, you wanted to work for MI5?(Laughs) Well, maybe I already am. Maybe this whole thing is just a facade for further activities that I am carrying out on behalf of her majesty.

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Do you see similarities between your character of seductress Trudy on “Hap and Leonard” and buttoned-down businesswoman Joan on “Mad Men”?I think they both know how to get their way. I think that would be the biggest similarity. I think they’re both quite influential. But other than that ... very different.

Is Trudy smarter than the two men around her?I think she’s savvy. I think she may be savvier. I don’t think she’s smarter.

What attracted you to the role in the first place?You know, I wasn’t ready to really do anything. I had just finished “Mad Men.” I was working on (the Comedy Central series) “Another Period” and I was really kind of ready to take a little break after nine years. And I just got this script and it was so awesome, so different, and luckily my AMC family was involved in it and said they thought of me and brought it to me and luckily Jim Mickle, our director, was excited about the idea and I just felt like I couldn’t not play her. I just really wanted to play her when I read it. So there I was in Louisiana, next thing you know (laughs).

In the heat of June, no less.It was the craziest. It was hot, it was buggy. The very first day we had a tornado. I mean, it was wild. It was wild weather. ... And yet there’s something kind of sexy about it and balmy and there’s something nice about it, too.

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When was the last vacation you took, where and why?(McDermott) “Arrowhead at Christmas. We went to Lake Arrowhead (in California) and took the kids skiing ... .”

What book are you currently reading?(McDermott) “It’s a book by Jordin Tootoo and it’s called ‘All the Way: My Life on Ice.’ ”

What did you have for dinner last night?(McDermott): “We made homemade pizzas with the kids.”

What is your next project?(Spelling) “I have a couple of things in the works. I just did a TV movie with Lifetime that is kind of a reboot of a famous TV movie I did 20 years ago. So that was a lot of fun. I’m working on a new party-planning show on WE network. And just ... getting back to what I love doing. Like I love doing DIY and crafting and baking and doing stuff with my kids ... . Obviously, I love acting but I’m hoping I can do it all.”

For those winter-weary souls in the northern states, we have good news: Spring officially arrives Sunday morning at 12:30 a.m. (ET), meaning that polar ice cap in your backyard isn’t long for this world.

And to mark the coming of warmer weather and the return of outdoor activity, husband-and-wife actors and foodies Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott come forth with “Tori & Dean’s Spring Picnic,” airing that night on Cooking Channel.

“It’s not just going back to taking your coat off,” Spelling says. “You start to really go back to all the seasonal vegetables, the fruits and everything that’s coming in, the flowers. So it’s really great and we want to teach our kids to be able to recognize that because they honestly, growing up in L.A., don’t know how to differentiate seasons here, which is really sad. So we look at it as a time to go outdoors with the kids.”

In the hourlong special, the couple prepare a cornucopia of comestibles to go in the picnic basket, including Green Goddess potato salad, pimento cheese deviled eggs and a chicken and waffle BLT. There are also ideas for games

kids can play in the yard as well as outdoor decorating tips, which is Spelling’s specialty.

“I love a good challenge when it comes to décor, especially backyard décor,” she says. “I really believe in bringing the inside outdoors, which I think is really important because nowadays people spend so much money on outdoor furniture and, I don’t know, I was never in love with it to begin with. But I was always thinking like it’d be great just to bring what you have indoors and bring it out and have a loungy area.”

As for the menu, McDermott is the trained cook in the family, but he’s quick to share credit with Spelling and their four children.

“We are very collaborative and we believe in the best idea wins,” McDermott says. “So if we start off with something and someone has something to add, it’s like, ‘Oh, that’s great. Let’s go with that. Let’s take this.’ And it’s just a lot of fun and a lot easier way to work because I’ve certainly worked with people in restaurants where it’s their way or the highway and it’s no fun. So to have such a collaborative, creative family, it makes it a lot of fun.”

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“Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders” may be set internationally, but as a mother of two young children, Alana De La Garza is relieved it actually films close to home.

The “Law & Order” and “Forever” alum is among the stars of CBS’ new Wednesday spinoff of “Criminal Minds,” playing cultural anthropologist Clara Seger, who is working again with FBI International Response Team leader Jack Garrett (Gary Sinise) after suffering personal and professional tragedies. The actress began the television season with a recurring role on another CBS series, “Scorpion,” and she was filming both shows simultaneously at one point.

“I tried to do both for a little while, but the schedule was so heavy, the whole ‘Scorpion’ team was having to come in to shoot on Saturdays,” she recalls. “I thought, ‘Oh, this isn’t going to last,’ but they were wonderful about it and really supportive. They had some fun stuff planned, but unfortunately, we didn’t get to do it.”

For the many series roles she’s had, De La Garza deems her “Beyond Borders” alter ego Clara “the most like me, probably, of any character I’ve played as far as wardrobe and personality go. She’s pretty chill, but she’s much smarter than me. As long as she’s wearing linen pants and a Glock (pistol), no problem.”

Indeed, one of De La Garza’s favorite aspects of “Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders” is that she doesn’t have to worry much about her outfits ... which are

pretty basic, since her character often travels to gritty, humid places.

“When I went to my first fitting for this, I said, ‘I really have trouble with heels. We just have to find the right ones.’ And (the costumer) looked up at me and said, ‘Oh, no. They only want you in flats.’ And I was like, ‘What?’ I almost cried tears of joy!”

On balancing work and home: “I always look at mothers – especially those who have even more than two (children) – and think, ‘You guys are superheroes. How do you do this?’ Being a mom is the most important job in the world to me, and it’s hard because you no longer sleep. You can’t show up for your show late, but your kids come first.”


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JoShelkIn- Born Oct. 20, 1982 in Canada.

- He is also known as “EpicMook”.

- Many of his culinary masterpieces such as, The Poutine Tornado, Chicken Wing of Thrones and Breakfast Jenga have gone viral on the Internet.

- In 2010, he joined “Epic Meal Time” at its infancy stage, a web series showcasing indulgent recipes, which today has over 7 million subscribers. He has appeared on the series alongside celebrities including Seth Rogen, James Franco, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Oliver, and DeadMau5.

- The first two years into “Epic Meal Time,” the episodes were created at his house where he was able to hone his skills in deep frying and liquor sipping.

- Following its success, the “Epic Meal Time” gang launched a follow-up culinary web competition series, “Epic Chef,” and later added to their repertoire an instructional cooking web series, “Handle It.”

- Adding author to his resume, he co-wrote an “Epic Meal Time” cookbook with Harley Morenstein (aka The Sauce Boss), allowing fans to make their own epic meals.

- Moving from the web into television, he appeared as a regular cast member in the series “Epic Meal Empire” on FYI.

- In 2014, as a stunt promoting “Epic Meal Empire” he was dunked in a tank full of Diet Coke wearing a suit made of “roughly 4000” fruity Mentos.

- In 2015, he became the host of “Sugar Showdown,” which pits three bakers against each other for the chance to win $10,000 and the title of best dessert chef around, on the Cooking Channel.

- Also in 2015, he competed in “Cutthroat Kitchen: Superstar Sabotage” on Food Network.

- This month he joined the rotating panel of judges on Food Network’s new reality cooking show “Cooks vs. Cons,” where home cooks take on professional chefs.

Josh Elkin is a chef and an Internet and TV personality

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“Kids, they just say whatever they feel … so you add whatever talent they have, whether it’s ventriloquist or boxer of drum major or whatever it is, to the interview section where you listen to them talk. And it’s hilarious, so it’s a very entertaining show.” – Ellen DeGeneres of “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” in syndication, about being an executive producer of NBC’s “Little Big Shots”

“On ‘CSI: NY,’ you had an individual that lost a family member. He lost his wife on September 11th. He was grieving for nine seasons and then found love again at the end of the series. This is gonna be a little bit different.” – Gary Sinise of “Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders” on CBS, about his new series character vs. his previous one

“It’s hard to pick one out. I’d say ‘Bates Motel’ has been the best sort of experience character- and rolewise, purely because you get so much time on a television show to develop a character. There’s never this sense of sort of rushing any transformation into a 90-minute movie. We’re on Season 4 now and you have such a great amount of time to work on the character and to be in a particular world and work with the same people, and it just brings a closeness to that that’s hard to achieve on a film.” – Freddie Highmore of “Bates Motel” on A&E Network, on his favorite role to date

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James Purefoy of “Hap and Leonard” on Sundance Channel“I have a 3-year-old so my DVR is absolutely packed with ‘Peter Rabbit,’ ‘The Teletubbies,’ all the kinds of stuff where I just go, ‘How many episodes of ‘Peter Rabbit’ do we need? We have 195.’ ... We are taping ‘War and Peace’ at the moment. ... But then when I was here, I picked up all those habits like Bill Maher, ‘The Late Show,’ and we get those over there. So I enjoy watching all the things I used to watch when I was here. I always liked watching Zooey Deschanel in ‘New Girl.’ I don’t have time, frankly. I’m surprised anybody does to do the binge-watching thing. I know people do.”

Alana De La Garza of “Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders” on CBS“We’ve really gotten into ‘Outlander.’ We don’t get a lot of TV time, but we try to do our little DVR session and watch that.”

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Steve Harvey of “Little Big Shots” on NBC and “Steve Harvey” and “Family Feud” in syndicationOh, wow. I really watch Netflix. I have one day off – on Saturdays, when I’m home in Chicago – and I have to catch up on ‘Vikings,’ and on ‘Game of Thrones’ anytime I’m behind. Series like that get me excited, but I don’t get to watch too much TV.”

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If you didn’t necessarily think of heart surgeons as fun people, here comes “Heartbeat.”

While it’s far from a comedy, NBC’s new medical series – which has a “preview” premiere Tuesday, March 22, the night before it settles into its regular Wednesday slot, March 23 – boasts a spirited, energetic performance by Melissa George, seen frequently as grimmer characters in such projects as “In Treatment,” “Hunted” and last year’s NBC drama “The Slap.”

A nurse’s daughter in real life, she now plays cardiothoracic specialist Alex Panttiere, the new Chief Innovations Officer charged with bringing cutting-edge techniques to the hospital where she juggles her professional passion with her involvements with two colleagues: her current boyfriend (Dave Annable, also a doctor last season on Fox’s “Red Band Society”) and a surgeon (Don Hany, a native Australian like actress George) with whom she has a past ... and who has just joined her workplace.

“Heartbeat” is inspired by the life of Dr. Kathy Magliato, an executive producer of the show along with others including Jill Gordon (who developed the series for television) and spouses Amy Brenneman (“The Leftovers”) and Brad Silberling (“City of Angels”). Joshua Leonard (“The Blair Witch Project”) also stars as Alex’s ex-husband, a rock-music star who’s still very present for her and their children despite “the guy he left me for,” as she explains; Jamie Kennedy, D.L. Hughley and Shelley Conn are in the regular cast as well.

Initially, “Heartbeat” was slated for a fall start, but George’s pregnancy (she gave birth to her second son in November) delayed production. “It worked out very well,”

Female surgeon’s work and home lives form new NBC show’s ‘heartbeat’


she maintains. “Usually, the schedule is you get a pilot, you get picked up, you’re shooting, you air – and the creative team has a very short window to really flesh out what they want to say. Here, we had three months where the writers could actually produce, and Jill Gordon could create the show that she wanted. I think that’s a gift. To me, there are no mistakes. And my son was 10 pounds, I want you to know.”

Maintaining she “was not looking to produce a TV show” at this point, Brenneman and filmmaker spouse Silberling met with Magliato after the publication of the latter’s book “Healing Hearts: A Memoir of a Female Heart Surgeon.” Brenneman recalls “driving away and thinking, ‘That woman is a TV show.’ It took a while to find Jill Gordon, who really brought it to life, because I think it’s all of her irreverence. It’s her surprising stories. It’s who she is. So, I think it all started with Kathy, and then I got to midwife it to Jill.”

The emergency-surgery-on-an-airplane sequence that opens “Heartbeat” really happened to Magliato, who’s as lively as her on-screen alter ego and confirms the series is “based on real characters, people either in my life now or in my life in the past. I’m not getting as much ‘action’ as (George) is on the set. I asked my husband about a love triangle; he just won’t go for it. Kind of an old-school guy. But other than those two things, it’s pretty authentic ... pretty true to life.”

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BY GEORGE DICKIEAlice Vaughan is a woman with the world seemingly at her feet.

As played by Mireille Enos (“The Killing”) on the stylized ABC drama series “The Catch,” premiering Thursday, March 24, she’s beautiful, runs Los Angeles’ top security firm and is about to marry the love of her life, lawyer Christopher Hall (Peter Krause, “Parenthood”). As she’s approaching middle age, everything in her life seems to be perfect.

But as Alice soon finds out, her soon-to-be-betrothed isn’t who he appears to be. Chris is actually Ben Jones, a grifter who pulls big bucks cons on well-heeled targets, and he’s just made off with Alice’s $1.4 million check to buy a new house.

To say she’s devastated doesn’t begin to describe the range of emotions Alice experiences. She’s also feeling angry, betrayed and humiliated at being taken by exactly the type of person she’s paid handsomely to catch. And worse, she still might be harboring some feelings for Chris/Ben – and he also for her. Still, she’s intent on catching him no matter what and no matter who she must deceive along the way.

“Prior to, they’re a match made in heaven,” says Enos, who admits she jumped at the chance to play a glam girl in a Shondaland (“Scandal,” “Grey’s Anatomy”) series. “You couldn’t find two people who are more suited for each other who make each other happier. There’s humor and passion and everything that you could want, and I think it makes the story more poignant that neither Peter nor I are babies.

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“You know, we’re right smack-dab in the middle of our lives,” she continues, “and there’s this sense of, if they hadn’t met each other, they were fine. You know, they were (leading) happy, productive lives but there could have been something missing and this was maybe their last chance to find a relationship like this. And then, they’re star-crossed lovers. There’s also an element of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ in this – two people who desperately want to be together and should be together but their worlds are at odds.”

And that, says showrunner Allan Heinberg, will play out as the 10-episode first season progresses.

“We conceived them as sort of a Romeo and Juliet-type couple,” he explains, “very much in the Shondaland Olivia-and-Fitz mode and Derek-and-Meredith mode, where they’re two people who are their best selves when they’re with each other. They’re two people who are meant to be together but they come from opposite sides of the law. ... And they’re both very entrenched in their worlds, and so circumstances keep them apart and make it impossible for them to be together, at least to be together very easily. But their love and their sort of their forbidden romance and their star-crossed love is the center of the series for us.”

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For 35 years, “This Old House” made its name taking old houses and making them new again through a combination of construction know-how, state-of-the-art materials and good, old-fashioned Yankee ingenuity and creativity.

As the venerable Massachusetts-based series continues its 36th season Thursday, March 24, on PBS (check local listings), it ventures into virgin territory that might render the “old” part of its title something of a misnomer.

For the next 10 episodes, host Kevin O’Connor, master carpenter Norm Abram and the rest of the crew head to the commonwealth’s North Shore to follow the construction of what is known as a “pre-engineered” house, a home where individual pieces are precut and preassembled in a factory and then trucked to a job site, where they’re fitted together on a foundation.

This is not to be confused with prefabricated or modular homes, which are basically several large boxes preassembled in a factory and then bolted together at a job site. Instead, these homes are composed of precut flooring, preassembled walls and rafters, and architectural details from a different era – but with modern amenities.

“This company basically builds classic houses,” Abram says of the home’s manufacturer, Connor Homes. “Their style is to build what people now refer to as ‘the new old home concept.’ So it’s building homes that have the architectural details of the past but are energy-efficient and are laid out on the interior in a way for modern living.

“I mean, this house is basically considered 200 years old, around that range,” he continues. “It’s a farmhouse style.

In those old homes, they’re pretty plain and they’re pretty utilitarian. But in today’s culture, people are not going to live in that but a lot of people love those exterior details, so you can build a house that looks like it’s been around for 200 years on the outside but on the inside you can lay it out and obviously do all the things to make it energy efficient and comfortable.”

The advantages to this type of construction, says Abram, are several. Because the individual components are produced in the controlled environment of a factory, tolerances are extremely accurate and therefore quality is very high. And because these pieces are produced en masse, the cost per unit is less than in stick-built. There is also less waste, which further drives down cost. And then, of course, there are those design elements.

“This is really about creating a house that has a lot of historic architectural detail on the outside that’s very, very accurate, so that when you drive up to it you’ll look at it and say, ‘Jeez, that looks like an old farmhouse’ – but it’s straight and it’s level and insulated,” Abram says with a laugh.

“I made a comment when I was there for the wrap party. (I) was standing in … their office area, the parlor. ... It was scaled to what you would expect to see in an old farmhouse. However, the one big difference was the height of the ceilings. And I walked in the room and I said, ‘Yeah, this room feels very much like an old farmhouse ... but the ceilings would never have been this high in a historic house.’ But that’s kind of irrelevant; that’s the trade-off.”

“It’s code, also,” he chuckles, “so you have to follow that.”


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Emma Ishta’s new “stitching” outfit may look good, but there’s a price to pay for it.

The Australia-born model turned actress starts her second season as young government agent Kirsten Clark in the Freeform sci-fi drama “Stitchers” Tuesday, March 22. For the sequences in which she’s immersed in a water tank – so that the character can be scientifically “stitched” into the memories of murder victims – she dons a new costume made of pleather. She says its appearance is “fortunately very flattering,” but there’s a bit more to it.

“It’s highly uncomfortable this season,” Ishta allows with a smile detectable through her very American dialect, “but it looks great, so there’s some payoff. They wanted a thicker fabric, but if it was leather, it would shrink in the water ... so it had to be this pleather, which tends to smell really funny in water. That’s interesting.”

It’s also something that doesn’t hide much physically, though Ishta says that with her schedule, “It’s tremendously difficult to work out. I love exercising, since it’s great for body and mind; when I’m not working, I try to exercise pretty frequently. But working 15 hours a day on a TV show, there’s really no time. This season, with this suit, I could be a total slob. It would make anyone look great. For some reason, it just does that.”


emma Ishtawears ‘Stitchers’ well as Season 2 begins on Freeform

In a sense, Ishta is playing Kirsten 2.0 on “Stitchers” this time, since the agent’s Season 1 stitching into colleague Cameron (Kyle Harris) – who had stopped his heart to enable Kirsten to access needed information – is giving her access to all her emotions, something her previous condition of temporal dysplasia had prevented. “It’s great,” Ishta reflects, “because over the course of two seasons of the show, I’ve been able to play basically two different characters.”

As the new round of “Stitchers” begins, Ishta is celebrating happy personal news: She and playwright husband Daniel McCabe (“The Flood”) are expecting their first child together. The stepmother to his daughter from an earlier relationship, she worked during the early half of her pregnancy, “long days surrounded by friends, really lovely people.”

While “Stitchers” was under the ABC Family umbrella when it began last year, Ishta appreciates that it’s now helping to symbolize the recently rechristened Freeform. “I think the network is branching out in really interesting ways,” she reasons. “They’re aiming for that older audience that has grown up with them through ‘Pretty Little Liars’ and all their staple shows, and I do think we have a little more freedom to play around with who we are. It’s really fun.”

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FULL NAME: Kevin VanDamBORN: Oct. 24, 1967BIRTHPLACE: Kalamazoo, Mich.SPONSORS: Nitro, Mercury Marine, ToyotaWINS: 20RUNNER-UP: 12CLASSICS: 24

CAREER WINNINGS: Over $5.66-millionHONORS AND ACHIEVEMENTS: All-time money winner; Bassmaster Classic winner, 2001, 2005, 2010, 2011; Toyota Tundra Angler of Year: 1992, 1996, 1999, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011; ESPN Outdoorsman of the Year ESPY Award, 2002

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Last year at this time Kevin VanDam found himself in a position he’d never been in before: a spectator at the Bassmaster Classic, which is the biggest event in the sport of professional bass fishing. VanDam, who has won four Classics spanning his 25 year career, will be back on the water for the 2016 event at Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Grand Lake O’ the Cherokees. The veteran angler and fierce competitor is among the favorites to be on the leader-board when the final championship day airs in tape delay on Sunday, March 20, on ESPN2.

VanDam, or KVD as he is known, is literally the king of his sport. He rose to fame in the early 2000s when outdoor programming was becoming more mainstream and networks, including ESPN (remember the Great Outdoor Games?) were jumping on board (pun intended). Bass fishing took off as a TV product and the Classic was and still is the showcase event; the Super Bowl of bass fishing. KVD, meanwhile, has become bass fishing’s biggest icon.

Missing last year’s event proved that nothing is automatic and if anyone knows how hard bass fishing is it is KVD. The epitome of his sport, viewers watching the event, including the first two days which air March 19, will see that bass fishing is more than a ride in the boat. Anglers grind it out from well before sunrise until late afternoon making thousands of casts in all kinds of weather. About the only thing that puts a halt to a day of fishing, is high, dangerous winds.

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Some stories are such staples of American history, they deserve being retold.

The story of track and field icon Jesse Owens is one of them, and the movie drama that bears the smart multiple-meaning title “Race” is the latest version. It is what you’d expect it to be, a reverent remembrance of the challenges Owens faced – athletic and otherwise – before and during the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin.

Stephan James (“Selma”) is quite good in the central role, not only believable with his physique, but also in depicting the toll that racism took on Owens. Despite his status as one of America’s best hopes for Olympic gold at the time, the social ostracism he faced was near-constant and painful.

Director Stephen Hopkins (“Blown Away”) and the screenwriters cover Owens’ early years in efficient fashion, then move on to the principal conflicts “Race” wants to deal with. With Hitler coming into power, whether Americans would go to Germany and be involved in the Berlin Olympics at all was a huge question.

Athletics executive Jeremiah Mahoney (the customarily excellent William Hurt) called for a boycott, but U.S. businessman Avery Brundage (Jeremy Irons, also superb as usual) – who would play a huge role in organizing later Olympics – wanted to maintain the purity of international competition. That’s not to say Brundage didn’t engage in some wheeling and dealing on a global scale to ensure America’s participation.

Not only did those opposing views weigh heavily on Owens, so did that of the NAACP, which had its own thoughts on whether he should run in the Games. The problems encountered by Owens’ coach (Jason Sudeikis, becoming more and more a reliable dramatic performer after his “Saturday Night Live” days) added even more concern for the racer.

Disney movies about true sports events are known for going by the book in recounting such tales, doing it in a workmanlike way and showing just enough edge (when called for) without getting overly edgy. “Race” isn’t a Disney movie, but it works in much the same way ... and in watching it, it helps to remember that the 1930s was a different era, much more genteel even with controversies. The creative team here has to mirror that authentically, even in today’s more-direct times.

Don’t expect many surprises from it, and “Race” should satisfy as a snapshot of an event and an individual well worth being reminded of.

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“POINT BREAK” (March 29): The action-movie remake casts Luke Bracey as a novice FBI agent who infiltrates a possibly criminal group of thrill-seekers. (PG-13: AS, P, V)

“EXPOSED” (March 29): Keanu Reeves plays a New York police detective whose probe of his partner’s death comes to involve a troubled woman (Ana de Armas). (R: AS, P, V)

“CONCUSSION” (March 29): Will Smith stars as a forensic pathologist who links pro football’s necessary roughness to dementia in some players. (PG-13: AS, P)

“THE HATEFUL EIGHT” (March 29): In Quentin Tarantino’s Western, a blizzard strands stagecoach travelers; stars include Kurt Russell, Samuel L. Jackson and Jennifer Jason Leigh. (R: AS, N, P, GV)

“THE EXPANSE: SEASON ONE” (April 5): Earthlings and Martians try to coexist in the Syfy series; stars include Thomas Jane and Shohreh Aghdashloo. (Not rated: AS, P, V)

“THE REVENANT” (April 19): The recent Oscar winner for best actor (Leonardo DiCaprio) and director (Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu) is an early-19th-century frontier survival story. (R: AS, N. P, GV)

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“THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY – PART 2”Other projects have given her greater variety over the course of her run as Katniss Everdeen, but Jennifer Lawrence saw the franchise based on Suzanne Collins’ novels through to its end with its final film chapter. Here, Katniss and her comrades decide the only way to liberate their world from its government’s tyranny is to target its president (Donald Sutherland) ... but they’re in his sights, too, resulting in a series of perils they must struggle through. Also returning are Liam Hemsworth, Josh Hutcherson, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, Stanley Tucci, Jeffrey Wright, Julianne Moore, Jeffrey Wright, Jena Malone and – in his final screen appearance – Philip Seymour Hoffman. DVD extras: eight-part “making-of” documentary; audio commentary by director Francis Lawrence and producer Nina Jacobson; three behind-the-scenes featurettes. ››› (PG-13: AS, P, V) (Also on Blu-ray and On Demand)


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SUNDAY 10 p.m. on SHOWTIME BillionsThe repercussions triggered by all the recent revelations materialize in the form of insurrection, public demonstrations and panicky investors fleeing for the exits in a new episode called “Where the F... is Donny?.” Both Axe and Chuck (Damian Lewis, Paul Giamatti) are dumbfounded by an abrupt disappearance, and Chuck goes into manhunt mode with Connerty (Toby Leonard Moore) and the FBI. Confronted by firefighters who are furious over her husband’s actions, Lara (Malin Akerman) is forced to make a painful sacrifice. New

MONDAY 8 p.m. on ABC Dancing With the StarsThe ballroom is open again for its spring session: Celebrities including Jodie Sweetin (“Fuller House”) and Ginger Zee (“Good Morning America”) partner with pro dancers in Season 22 of the competition, as hosts Tom Bergeron and Erin Andrews steer the weekly proceedings. Julianne Hough isn’t back at the judges’ table this time, but Len Goodman — absent for most of last season — returns, rejoining Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli. Season Premiere New

TUESDAY 8 p.m. on FOX New GirlCece (Hannah Simone) gets an exciting job offer, so Jess (Zooey Deschanel) volunteers to help Schmidt (Max Greenfield) with the wedding preparations, a process that is complicated when his dad (guest star Peter Gallagher) appears unexpectedly. Elsewhere, Nick and Winston (Jake Johnson, Lamorne Morris) compete to prove who has the more demanding job in the new episode “D-Day.” Nasim Pedrad also guest stars. New

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WEDNESDAY 10 p.m. on TRUTV The Carbonaro EffectMagician and prankster Michael Carbonaro is back with 13 new episodes starting tonight. Among this season’s highlights to watch for, Michael persuades his audience that humans are delivered by drones, that a man can transform himself into a pig and that cyborgs walk freely among us every day. New

THURSDAY 8 p.m. on NBC You, Me and the ApocalypseMankind tries to prepare for the apocalypse after the truth about Project Savior is announced in the new episode “Calm Before the Storm.” In the midst of all the confusion, Scotty and Gaines (Kyle Soller, Paterson Joseph) try to break Rhonda (Jenna Fischer) out of jail, while Ariel (Mathew Baynton) schemes to steal his twin Jamie’s identity to ensure his own survival. Meanwhile, Celine (Gaia Scodellaro) rediscovers her religious faith. Megan Mullally and Diana Rigg also star. New

10 p.m. on FXBaskets In the season finale, “Family Portrait,” Chip’s (Zach Galifianakis) mom (Louie Anderson) adjusts to her new life as a diabetic, while his identical twin brother Dale learns cacti only need to be watered once a year. As for Chip himself, well, he hits rock bottom. The good news is that he finds some tasty curly fries down there. Season Finale New

FRIDAY 8 p.m. on FOX Sleepy HollowAll season this show has been teasing viewers with glimpses into the 18th-century relationship of Ichabod Crane (Tom Mison) and patriot-seamstress-spy Betsy Ross (Nikki Reed), and the new episode “Dawn’s Early Light” finds him once again forced to examine that shared past in his search for a key to stopping The Hidden One (guest star Peter Mensah). Elsewhere, Abbie (Nicole Beharie) faces a tough decision as tensions with Reynolds (Lance Gross) escalate further. Michael O’Keefe also guest stars. New

SATURDAY 9 p.m. on STARZ Black SailsIn the Season 3 finale, “XXVIII,” Rogers (Luke Roberts) leads his forces on a determined search for the pirates, while elsewhere, Bonny and Rackham (Clara Paget, Toby Schmitz) face odds that are little short of impossible. Silver (Luke Arnold) confronts Flint (Toby Stephens) and demands some answers, while Billy (Tom Hopper) crowns a king. Season Finale New

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